When I say “bullshit,” what do you think of most? What to you is the archetype of bullshit?
I myself think of critical theory.
The anti-vaccination movement.
Oh gawd, how can I choose? Oh, I’ll go with internal corporate rah-rah-ism in the face of public outrage (like say, for data overage notifications or doubling the cost of a phone upgrade).
Scientific Creationism.
The Invisible Hand; Trickle-Down Economics; Supply-Side Economics; and those who strive to deregulate the economy, are high on the list.
MsWhatsit has a strong nominee in the anti-Vaccination movement. Toss in the anti-Fluoridation movement for laughs.
I don’t know enough about “Critical Theory.” Is that something akin to the “Science of Aesthetics?”
Most of the big evidence-free Conspiracy Fantasies are bullshit. The Birthers are probably the bulliest. The Apollo Hoaxers and Truthers are also really full of it.
Someone is sure to come along and nominate Organized Religion in general. And they’re got a strong point. So, what the heck… Organized Religion in general. Anybody who claims that they know what the Creator of the Cosmos wants is so full of it, it’s leaking out their scalp.
Critical Theory is the vein of thought in the Humanities, popular for some time now, that takes great influence from Marxism and psychoanalysis. It’s responsible for the equivocal arguments and opaque prose you expect of a scholar like Judith Butler or Slavoj Zizek.
Creationism. It doesn’t stand up to a single second of scrutiny.
Could you clarify your opinions? There is quite a bit here and your statements are very broad.
Is there a particular point you’d like me to elaborate on?
The first objection I have to Critical Theory is its tendency to take old-fashioned social pseudoscience too seriously. Marx, Engels, Freud, and Lacan are treated as real authorities. There are, of course, legitimate social scientists out there (plenty) but those quoted by critical theorists are almost never among them.
The second objection is its tendency towards truth relativism. Wherever you turn, you’re apt to find explicit or implicit appeals to the relativity of truth. In particular, there is an unfortunate skepticism towards science, which is treated as just another ideology, rather than a methodical way of seeking truth.
Third, the writing style essentially relies on equivocation and jargon. An author will make a vague remark that can be interpreted a whole number of ways, and instead of clarifying it, move immediately on to other remarks. These will in turn be unclear. Reading an entire essay by a critical theorist is thus extremely frustrating.
What to you is the epitome of bullshit?
Two things immediately come to mind: homeopathy, NDE’s as evidence of an afterlife.
The bible.
NDEs existence.
Politicians can lower gas prices with a phone call. 
Critical theorists don’t treat science as an ideology, they treat it as what it is: an exploitative power dynamic social construct reinforced by the entrenched polymorphically perverse patriarchy.
I stand corrected.
Now I don’t claim to be well-versed in critical theory by any means but upon reading a few of these links it seems to me that, rather than a fixed, static school of thought, it has been a dynamic, evolving framework through which social scientists and philosophers have examined societies. Aspects of this framework have contributed to current states of knowledge today.
There have definitely been changes in critical theory and to this day there are various competing schools of thought. But I think the problems I named will be found in most or all of the schools for the past fifty years or so.
The first thing?
Identifying yourself as a published author despite self-publishing without selling any.
Scientology for the win.
Religion in all its forms, and the politicians who pander to it to the detriment of us all.
Holocaust denial.
Sungazing.
A position that is so totally idiotic that I wish I knew someone who espoused it so that I could argue with them about it is the idea that Christians in the US are persecuted, that there’s a war on Christianity, that there’s a war on Christmas, etc.